Wow it's been a while . . .

So I just realized how long it has been since i participated in the blogging world and I am so sorry. Let me give a quick update. First I put another post in before this one so scroll down to see it! it's long but you will enjoy the update i promise!

* Alex is now gone but while he was here he basically worked and slept ans ate! Really that's all he did. However while he was working he cut his finger open on a skill saw and basically it looked a little bit of spaghetti. They were going to give him stitches but there wasn't much they could stitch it too so it healed on it's own. Just so you know drugs were a wonderful healing power!

* Nathan built a home for the Bear Lake Parade of Homes of which he WON THE PEOPLE"S CHOICE award! I am so proud of him!!!! It's a beautiful home that we were so blessed to build because we have really met and made some pretty special friends. I will post on this a little later.

* I am going back to school to finish my degree in Elementary Education! I am loving it!

* My pool project isn't going like i thought it would but a little at a time. I am almost at $10,000 which is a start. I need much much more than that so if you know of any companies that need to make donations please let me know! Or if you know of any grants that I may obtain somehow please let me know!

* Tavis has found the new love in his life! TRUCKS TRUCKS AND TRUCKS. He makes the driving sound and drives them all over his body and all over everyone else. It's so funny to watch. He has taught himself to put things in the bucket of the trackhoe and skidster and hull them around. I did not teach him this but I think he got it from his watching his dad drive all the equipment around. He recently started putting food in the buckets and feeding himself from the trucks. It must be in his blood!

* His first word is of course DAD! :( and the 2nd word is Dog. There is no mom, infact he's not even close. He won't even make the sounds. I am so sad. He loves our dogs and points everday out the window at them and dog dog dog. . . he'll point at Nate's truck and say Dad Dad Dad. I have tried everything but there is not mom.

* Tavis has taught himself how to use a fork. He will not let me feed him to save my life. I tried the kid forks but they are not sharp enough for him to pick anything up so he won't eat unless he has a big people fork of which h is amazingly accurate and feeds himself very well.

* We finally got grass! Well kind of. it's in quite the fragile state but i'll take pictures to show you later when it' doesn't look soo umm well fragile.

Raspberry Days Parade

I was asked by the Home Builder Association to help decorate the float for the home builders. Every year there is a craft fair and a fun parade and a fun run (5k) which i have never done, and there are rides and candy and tons of food. Well this year we a had to pull and decorate the float which was so fun. Tavis loved all the candy even though he didn't really know what it was. Tavis loved chasing the balloons around, he couldn't even pin one down to play with, they all just kept popping out of his grip; It was so funny! We had all of Nathan's guys (employee's) ride on the float and throw hats and shirts and candy and beads! We had a blast!

I'm Tagged by Yvonne Welch

8 Things I am passionate about
1. Being a Wife
2. Being a Mom
3. Feeling the Love of My Savior and Sharing it with others
4. My Young Womens Calling
5. As of Lately my Garden City Public Pool Project
6. Getting My Husband to Play a Little more
7. Friends. . I love friends, I love letting people know they are important and i love them.
8. Getting Tavis to Walk. . . he is so close! His muscles are finally strong enough so that he can pull himself up to anything and everything. It's so fun to see he take the learning leap! I love it!

8 things I want to do before i die
1. Travel around the world for a year
2. Create relationships that will last long after I pass away
3. make a memory journal for tavis and nathan so they will always have me with them. (I want to write letters of advice and encouragement for them over the years ) I know that sounds wierd but you never know when it's your turn. Life is so not in our hands...
4. Do something huge like run a marathon or swim across the lake or something like that.
5. adopt a child
6. work at an orphanage
7. look into the prophets eyes
8. read the bible

8 things i say a lot
1. love (nathan) can you/we. . .
2. Tavis let me help you
3. Whatever
4. Sure Nathan I will
5. Just let me do it
6. Um No.
7. Hey (name) what are you doing to day?
8. I really need to get a hobby . . .

8 Books i have read as of lately
1. Pillars of the earth
2. Just Hold Me
3. When Your Prayers Seem Unanswered
4. The Peacegiver
5. Goodnight Moon
6. What to Expect in the toddler years
7. Oh The Places You Will Go
8. Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes

8 Movies I have watched
1. The Dark Kinght . . it was so good
2. P.S. I love you . . I cried like a baby, also so good!
3. 10 things i have about you
4. Lucky 7
5. Defenitely, maybe. . .not that good
6. 10,000 B.C. ahh pretty good
7. 27 Dressess
8. Fools Gold. . .DON"T WATCH THIS I HAD TO TURN IT OFF

8 Bloggers I tag
1. Jennifer Hurdsman
2. Amber Lee
3. Katie Reid
4.Violet Lufkin
5. Jeanine Crane
6. Bethany Tomseth
7. Carrie Mamberg
8. Nicole Long

Top Ten Events in the Last Month!

1. Forth of July was fun and we went to Paris Id. to watch the parade and get candy.
2. I cut Tavis' hair again and I hate it. I love longer hair.
3. We play at the beach all the time and Tavis is getting a beautiful tan!
4. Tavis, I think really has a girlfriend. . . McKenna.
5. He loves the bath and water. We had Mom and baby swim lessons and he love it!!
6. He is close to walking but he's chicken.
7. He all the sudden hates to go to sleep!!! Ahh it's driving me crazy . . .
8. Alex is living with us and we love it!
9. I am heading up a swimming pool project for our community and it's stressful!
10. The home show is coming up and Nathan's Cabins is looking awesome!
11. Oh Yeah i cute my Head open on our granite counter tops. . i don't recommend doing it!

Wow Tavis is ONE!

Wow what a day. Tavis got up at 6 which is early but I guess he knew it was his day! We went to church but I wanted Tavis to be rested for his party so we took him home early to get in his nap. We cooked delicious steaks and loaded mashed potatoes and had homemade rolls (i am getting so good at the roll thing) fruit salads and a load of junk food! It was so good! Nathan's family came down from Bloomington and Jenn and Dave were up from Ca. and Amber and Aaron we up from Provo and all the Grandparents came which was wonderful. We all just hung out and ate as much as we could then we opened presents. The best part of the day was when we gave Tavis his own cake.
- I made a tractor cake from a pan and decided I wanted to be cute like all my friends from back home and decorate it and I made a mess in my kitchen and worked all day on it and it looked good well kind of. . . well not really good at all but it was a good for a kid cake.

We got him down to his diaper and let him dig in. He didn't really eat much he was much more interested in smearing it all over the table and watching squeeze through his fingers. It was so cute until the black dye we used for the tires started dyeing everything purple including Tavis. We put him in the bath and it looked like we had beat him which i was in fear of because i had a Dr. the next day. All in all it was a great birthday and it has gone by so fast!! Thank you all for your support and love
Jess
What a hot lookin' birthday boy!






I love to drink out of straws
yes a mess!!

Nathan helped blow up all the balloons except he thought he was in some kind of competition with himself to see how big he could get them all before they popped. . .many popped first!
Dave Jenn and Amber
All the kids
A funny birthday family photo
Nathan at the Grill

The Grandparents

It's a long one but it has lots of pictures!!!:)

A LADIES NIGHT OUT!
1. So this last wed. evening the RS in our ward had a fun little BQ and everyone brought so much food and we ate a chatted and it was so nice to get out a rub shoulders with the ladies you don't get to see very often. I love gatherings! More importantly I wanted all to see the family that has taken care of me during my times of difficulty with Carter and these women have now become sub-grandmothers to Tavis. I just wanted to show everyone all the people I love!!! (of course this isn't all of them but it's a good portion).

A CRACKING OF THE HEAD. . . OUCH!
2. Well that night I was doing some clean-up just before bed and all the lights were turned off and I was putting the last of the clothes in the laundry room and on the way i saw a sock on the ground so i went to pick it up and cracked my head on the counter-top and split it open. . . I didn't realize I had split it open until i went to stand up and blood started to rush down my face and arm. . .it was lovely as you can imagine so Nathan came to my rescue. . . kind of, he uh. . well . . . to put it nice he doesn't do well under pressure. This was 10:30 at night and at 11:30 I was able to get my stitches and all was well until I realized i had invited everyone to the beach on friday and I really did invited everyone i could think of so great I hope i didn't gross anybody out.

BEACH DAY . . .YEA FOR THE SUN!!
3. So I invited everyone to the beach with there kids because we all have needed to get out and play a little and I just love my friends and their kids. So We set up the canopy and played all day! I loved it! I love watching kids play in the sand and water and use their imaginations! So here are pictures of all of this! I thought Tavis would get bored since he's not completely mobile but Alli gave him a little shovel and he played all day in the dirt. He loves to dig i have found.

A Side note. .
I was helping the beautify committee plat flowers and I brought Tavis along and gave him a little shovel and he dug in those barrels and squeezed the dirt between his fingers for 2 hours and never got bored. . a true boy!